By Ethan Covey
Updating the design of hospital wards, such as ICUs, can decrease rates of nosocomial infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria, according to data presented at the 32nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal (poster P0927).
“The emergence of bacterial resistance has been—and is still—one of the main issues in intensive care units responsible for severe nosocomial infections,” said Khadija El